How to heal Tanks...

[Hysterior]

My usual recommendations for newer healers:
- Use all the oGCD skills at your disposal for your level, on cool-down (powerful AND free)
- You should never use Cure I (or equivalent) if you have better skills available, these are quite literally your worst healing skills, avoid as much as possible
- People do not need to be topped off all the time (applicable to tanks too). Let people regen by themselves unless some damages are incoming (and no, Medica 2 does not need a 100% uptime. The only dot that should be running 100% is your dps dot on the boss)
- Mana regen skills on cooldown, not when you need mana
- Encounters usually don't need as much healing as you think. Learn how to DPS as soon as possible, no group wants a level 80 healers that cannot dps at all.
- In parties with a co-healer, assume they will be a heal spam bot (see point above) and let them solo heal until you see that they need help (works 99% of the time)
- Don't use regen before a pull. Your tank does not need it and you will get aggro. Tanks need to go back to pick up the mobs you stole and he will hate you. No commendation for you!


For WHM:
- Benediction is not a skill that you rarely use, it is the most powerful single person heal in the game, and it is FREE! USE IT!
- Even only one Holy reduces healing needed for some time, use it (Spam it like Lalafells spam the "Happy" emote to annoy people)


Last one:
For Benediction, you need to find that amazing sweet spot.
Not too late that it fails and is applied when tank is dead, but not too early either.
Make the tank pee a little... then use it.